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Summary

The Little DK Handbook'sdesign is a true marriage of visual and textual content, in which each topic is presented in self-contained, two-page spreads for at-a-glance referencing. Explanations are concise and ;chunked ; to be more approachable and appealing for today's readers, and accompanying visuals truly teach ; making concepts and processes visible to students. The ground-breaking layout creates a consistent look and feel that helps students connect with the material, find information, and recognize solutions to writing problems they often don't have names for. Little DK offers more instruction on research-particularly online research-than other brief handbooks. This handbook also presents grammar and documentation (MLA, APA, CMS and CSE) in new ways that makes the material more accessible, including unique ;pattern pages ; that help students grasp principles visually. With strong attention to the rhetorical situation, visual examples illustrating all stages of the writing process, and student-tested grammar, research, and documentation coverage, The Little DK Handbookoffers more than other brief handbooks, presents information in a revolutionary format, and motivates students to become better writers and researchers.

Table of Contents

PART 1 A PROCESS FOR ACADEMIC COMPOSING

What Is Composing? 2

What Is Rhetoric? 3

Rhetoric and a Process for Composing 4

Academic Writing 5

Writing in the Humanities 6

Writing in the Sciences 8

Writing in the Social Sciences 9

Understanding an Assignment 10

PART 2 FINDING IDEAS

A Research Process 12

Finding a Topic 13

Narrowing a Topic 14

Questions to Guide Research 16

Kinds of Sources 18

Kinds of Research 19

Determining Where to Research 20

Choosing Sources 22

Print 24

Webpages and Other Online Sources 26

Finding Sources Online 28

Using Library Catalogs 29

Using Library Journal Databases 30

Keeping Track of Sources 32

Evaluating Sources for Relevance 34

Evaluating Sources for Credibility 36

Starting a Paper 40

PART 3 ANALYZING IDEAS, GETTING ORGANIZED

What Is Analysis? 42

Analyzing to Understand 43

Identifying Rhetorical Strategies 44

Analyzing Thesis Statements 46

A Sample Rhetorical Analysis 48

Analyzing to Ask Questions 50

Questions for Critical Reading 51

Questions for Critical Writing 52

What Counts as Evidence 53

Using Analysis to Develop a Thesis Statement 55

Using a Thesis Statement to Organize an Academic Paper 56

Reasoning 58

PART 4 DRAFTING A PAPER, CONNECTING WITH AUDIENCES

Understanding Your Audience 60

Developing a Statement of Purpose 62

Shaping Paragraphs for Audience and Purpose 64

Unified and Coherent Paragraphs 65

Paragraphs That Develop 68

Writing a Draft 71

A Rough Draft 72

Once You’ve Finished a Draft 78

Receiving Feedback to a Draft 79

Responding to the Writing of Your Peers 80

PART 5 REVISING WITH STYLE

Revising Your Writing 82

Developing a Revision Plan 83

Styling Paragraphs 84

Concluding Paragraphs 85

Introductory Paragraphs 86

Transitions Between Paragraphs 87

Passive Voice 88

Styling Sentences 89

Academic Sentences 89

Sentences That Are Easy to Read 90

Parallelism 91

Using Coordination and Subordination 92

Using Inclusive Language 94

Styling Words 96

Action Verbs 97

Concrete Nouns 97

Clichés 98

Too Many Words 98

Jargon 98

PART 6 DOCUMENTING

Why Cite and Document Sources? 100

Plagiarism—and How to Avoid It 100

Citing and Documenting 101

Quoting Others’ Words 102

Summarizing and Paraphrasing 104

Collecting Citation Information 106

From Printed Books 106

From Printed Periodicals 108

From Webpages 110

From an Article You Find in a Database of Journals 112

MLA DOCUMENTATION 114

Guide to MLA Documentation Models 114

A Paper in MLA Format 116

A Works Cited Page in MLA Format 124

MLA Documentation for In-Text Citations 126

Variations on the MLA In-Text Citation Pattern 127

MLA Documentation for Works Cited 130

PATTERN: MLA Works Cited for Periodicals in Print 132

PATTERN: MLA Works Cited for Articles from Online Scholarly Journals and Databases 134